posted July 05, 2011 09:04 AM            

w/ Julian Assange and Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek -- Live From London July 2

live stream at democracy now w/ free embeds to share
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posted July 05, 2011 11:42 AM            

Let's give the Marxist Amy Goodman the review she needs to make her comments clear to other readers.

AMY GOODMAN
Co-anchor of Democracy Now! radio and television show
Co-creator of Democracy Now! at Pacifica Radio in New York City
Co-author of the book The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them

So, exactly who and what is "Democracy Now"?

Radical radio and television weekday news show and tax-exempt entity
Created in 1996 at Pacifica Radio in New York City
Main anchor is co-founder and radical Amy Goodman

Democracy Now! is a morning weekday newscast that (as of June 2009) could be heard on at least 800 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada, and on a number of additional stations in Europe, Australia, Mexico, and South America. It also produces a television version of each newscast, which its website (as of April 2006) says can be seen and heard on more than 250 cable TV systems, mostly on public access channels, and on subscriber satellite TV systems Direct TV and DISH network. Democracy Now! is also a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.

Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news director Amy Goodman, Pacifica anchor Larry Bensky, Juan Gonzalez, Salim Muwakkie and Julie Drizin. Its aim was to provide "perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media," i.e., the views of radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes of capitalism. The popular hard-left show soon began airing not only in New York City but also on the other Pacifica-owned stations in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C.

Key figures at Democracy Now!, such as radio producer Mike Burke and television producers Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press and John Hamilton, all have backgrounds in Indymedia. Nogueira also has written for Z Magazine.

In 2000 Democracy Now! departed from WBAI's facilities amid internal battles over control of Pacifica Radio. It has broadcast ever since from studios in a converted firehouse renamed the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) in New York City's Chinatown. It continues to air on Pacifica-owned and affiliated stations. It is satellite-uplinked via the Pacifica Satellite System, but also via the taxpayer-subsidized Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS). Stations can also receive the program over the Internet as broadcast-quality MP3 computer files.

Serious questions have arisen about how Democracy Now!, begun and developed with the resources of Pacifica Radio and grants from the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund and others, suddenly became independent and the effective property of Amy Goodman without recompense to Pacifica. This transfer apparently included valuable assets such as trademarks, ownership of years of archived programs, affiliate station access, and more.

In a contract that remains secret, Amy Goodman is also receiving $1 million per year for a five-year period that began in 2002, according to Pacifica Treasurer Jabari Zakiya, to continue doing what has become Pacifica's flagship morning news program. This is more than double Goodman's officially stated stipend of $440,000 per year from Pacifica Radio.

Democracy Now! receives indirect funding from George Soros, and direct funding from Soros' Open Society Institute, the Glaser Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, and other left-leaning foundations.

So now, we know who Amy Goodman shills for AND we find a slimy, moth eaten group of Marxist America haters of the first order.

One doesn't need to read very far to find the straight line connection of dots between Amy Goodman and her Marxist icons.

Here's one now. How about the Revolutionary Communist from the O'Bomber administration...Van Jones!

Democracy Now! Marxists Explain the Real Reason Van Jones Resigned

"With sadness probably not felt by the left since the death of Joseph Stalin, Amy Goodman and her fellow Communists at Democracy Now! offered an analysis of the events leading up to the midnight resignation of Barack Obama's Marxist Green Jobs Czar,ťVan Jones Sunday evening.

Goodman set the stage by describing Jones many achievements:"
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/09/09/democracy-now%e2%80%99s-marxists-explain-the-real-reason-van-jones-resigned/

It's not the least unusual for Communists to adopt innocent sounding American symbols as names for their subversive organizations.

Democracy Now is just one (1) example.

posted July 05, 2011 03:12 PM            

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... : go after the person's credibility, motives, intelligence, character, or, if necessary, sanity. No category of character assassination is off the table....[] also use ad hominem attacks not just against individuals, but entire categories of people in an effort to discredit the ideas of every person who is seen to fall into that category, e.g. "liberals," "hippies," "progressives" etc. This form of argument - if it can be called that - leaves no room for genuine debate over ideas, so by definition, it is undemocratic. Not to mention just plain crass.[]

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seems a perfect example to me.

Ms Goodman, as interviewer, offered few opinions or analysis to speak of in the piece, in fact she spoke very little during, comparatively *edit though she did set the ball rolling with the Apache Helicopter event.

What is not American about questioning authority? It is essential to democratic society.
And what is wrong about the pursuit of transparency in government? I thought you supported all efforts in that regard.

Lots of twisting of panties, for a piece-- I will lay odds on-- you listened to not a minute of.

posted July 07, 2011 10:12 AM            

Further, the entire amalgamated choir of communists who support Amy Goodman's subversion with funding is clearly laid out.

It takes an extremely dim bulb to be a fellow traveler of Amy Goodman and the assortment of communist pukes who support her with funding. Lenin had a name for these dim bulbs..."Useful Idiots"!

No where on earth is there..or was there a communist nation which practiced what communist pukes preach. These were dictatorships engaged in murder of their own citizens to keep themselves in power....under the umbrella mantle of Socialism.